ICOS 2025

The International Conference of Organizational Sociology ICOS 2025 is a joint conference of the Section on Organizational Sociology of the German Sociological Association (DGS), the Research Committee on Sociology of Organizations (RC17) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), the Research Cluster OPAL at the Helmut Schmidt University, and the „Organization & Society“ Research Group of the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

The main topic of ICOS 2025 is „Organizing Plurality“. In today’s society, organizations typically face a myriad of expectations from numerous groups, individuals, and systems. These expectations come from various societal domains, ranging from the micro to the macro level and from the local to the global. They include moral, political, economical, and environmental concerns, as well as general values and legal norms. Thus, one of the central problems of society and organizations today is how to deal with such plural references and orientations. In this sense, we discuss the role of organizations in coping with the plural and heterogenous challenges of social pluralities from various conceptual and empirical perspectives with leading researchers from the international community of organizational sociology.